Talk:Shale gas in the United States

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Orphaned references in Shale gas in the United States

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Shale gas in the United States's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ReferenceA":

• From Norway: "The Judiciary". Norway.org. 2009-06-10. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
• From Williston Basin: Peterson, J., Williston Basin Province, in U. S. Geological Survey 1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources, Digital Data Series DDS-30, Release 2, CD-ROM

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 19:22, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Jargon

Parts of this article contain jargon (e.g., gas "play") that should probably be either explained in advance or reworded. Zach99998 (talk) 12:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Controversy

It seems odd to me that there is not one word in this article about problems with shale gas production through horizontal drilling and fracking. This is particularly strange as there is quite a discussion in the USA about this topic, e.g. at Democracy Now. I could write about the topic, but only if there is not a moron out there working at suppressing all dissent concerning "hydraulic fracturing. Let me know whether you are willing to discuss the topic in the article or, possibly, whether there is already a place where it is or should better be discussed. Mregelsberger (talk) 14:24, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Merge proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to merge Alanl (talk) 13:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

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I had renamed Shale gas extraction in the United States from the title "Great Shale Gas Rush" since that was a non-notable but influential title used on a National Geographic report. I then discovered the Shale gas in the United States page. Now I am more of a seperatist than ainclusionist but I think these pages are a good match at this stage. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:17, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

WSJ resource

Shale-Gas Boom Spurs Race; States Vie for New Chemical Factories—and Jobs—Powered by Lower Energy Costs by JAMES R. HAGERTY; excerpt ...

Shale-gas production is spurring construction of plants that make chemicals, plastics, fertilizer, steel and other products. A report issued earlier this month by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC estimated that such investments could create a million U.S. manufacturing jobs over the next 15 years. West Virginia is vying with Pennsylvania and Ohio to attract an ethylene plant that Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it ...

99.19.40.123 (talk) 09:59, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Wall Street Journal resource

The Coal Age Nears Its End December 23, 2011 by Rebecca Smith, excerpt ...

Their owners cite a raft of new air-pollution regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, including a rule released Wednesday that limits mercury and other emissions, for the shut-downs. But energy experts say there is an even bigger reason coal plants are losing out: cheap and abundant natural gas, which is booming thanks to a surge in production from shale-rock formations in the U.S.

Note: accompanying image show burning natural-gas-plant in contrast coal-plant Byproducts on Average Emissions from the power plants in pounds per megawatt hour, such nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide; here is a related excerpt ...

Last July, the agency released its final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which requires reductions of sulfur-dioxide and nitrogen-oxide emissions in 23 Eastern and Midwestern states beginning next year, as well as seasonal ozone reductions in 28 states.

99.181.130.110 (talk) 11:23, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Add here per Talk:Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing?

According to Business Week, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which conducts much of the government’s climate science, then surprised nearly everyone in February when they revealed that air samples from an area of Colorado with a lot of fracking wells contained twice the amount of methane the EPA estimated came from that production method.

... since there isn't a Natural gas in the United States? Is there a better current wp article? 99.181.140.141 (talk) 08:17, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Natural gas#Extraction, above the current entry about Fracking. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 08:25, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Discovers of Marcellus Shale

Pearl Gertrude Sheldon, a structural geology student who earned her Ph.D. from cornell in 1911 spent several years afoot in the region around the Taughannock State Park. In her 27 page work published in 1912 in the Journal of Geology, Some Observations and Experiments on Joint Planes, she saw that the upper devonian shales were uniformly bisected by a grid of vertical planes corresponding to the dips and rises in the sine wave-the tectonic-induced stress field- that later geologists noted. She called them symmetrical joint sets.

From the book Under The Surface: fracking, fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale by Tom Wilbur. c 2012 by Cornell University ISBN 978-0-8014-5016-7.

May I suggest a page for Pearl Gertrude Sheldon— Preceding unsigned comment added by Katesisco (talk • contribs) 12:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC)